The #1 Greatest Song of the 80's

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07 Nov 2006, 12:06 pm

Ah, the Eighties, bad hair, bad clothes, killer music.

Siouxie and the Banshees are awesome.

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07 Nov 2006, 1:02 pm

When it comes to the music, I live in the '80s.

I wouldn't have voted for "Livin' on a Prayer" though. New Order's good, as is anything by the Smiths and the Cure. For a while I thought "Love Plus One" by Haircut 100 was the best song to come out of the '80s, and publicized in on my LJ as such. Now I've really got a thing going for Olivia Newton-John's "Physical"; everyone laughs when I tell them that.

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08 Nov 2006, 3:51 am

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Eye of the Tiger!! !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1MDEX5S0a8

I think that may have come out in 1979 (the year I was born), but close enough.

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08 Nov 2006, 2:24 pm

I wouldn't of voted for Livin' On A Prayer.

I guess most people (not all) when living in the 80s only remember that song and vote for it.

I might be wrong though.

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08 Nov 2006, 3:52 pm

hmm... the 80s....... dubious knitwear........

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08 Nov 2006, 5:39 pm

There were plenty of rubbish bands in the 80s.... don't stare too long through the rose-tinted spectacles As for the good ones:-

"Love plus one" by Haircut 100 was bloody brilliant, agreed. Didn't they also do "Fantastic Day"?

"When Smokey Sings" - ABC

"I Second That Emotion" - Japan

"C'mon Eileen" - Dexy's Midnight Runners

"Love Cats" - The Cure (might be 90s, not sure)

"Heatseeker" - AC/DC

"She Sells Sanctuary" - The Cult

"Plug Tunin' " - De La Soul

"24 minutes from Tulse Hill" - Carter USM

It Bites "Eat Me in St. Louis" album

Stone Roses "Stone Roses" album

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08 Nov 2006, 8:08 pm

"Don't Dream It's Over" - Crowded House
"The Tower That Ate People" - Peter Gabriel
come to think of it, just about anything from Gabriels' "So" album, plus a big hunk of Genesis.

Ooh, and can't forget Loverboy.
Or the Bangles.
Or Berlin.
Ooh, or Oingo Boingo.

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08 Nov 2006, 8:23 pm

How about Beethovan's, er... Joplin's, oh, you mean the 1980s.

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09 Nov 2006, 11:07 am

My favourite song of the 80´s is Africa by Toto. I think it was the "one hit wonders" decade !

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09 Nov 2006, 7:07 pm

"Lullaby" off "Disintegration" by The Cure. 1989.

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09 Nov 2006, 8:47 pm

IcelandicGuy wrote:

My favourite song of the 80´s is Africa by Toto. I think it was the "one hit wonders" decade !

They had other hits too. They also did a song called "Roseanna."

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09 Nov 2006, 10:14 pm

Gary Numan - Cars

Come on people! How can you forget Cars?

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10 Nov 2006, 11:08 am

Sammy Hagar ~ Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy

Tom Petty ~ Free Fallin

Robert Plant ~ Ship of Fools

Wall of Voodoo ~ Mexican Radio

Van Halen ~ Love Walks In

Vapors ~ Turning Japanese

Eagles ~ Hotel California

...and a fav that really wasn't on the charts...

Love Has Taken It's Toll ~ Foreigner

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10 Nov 2006, 11:27 am

MelancholyBunny wrote:

Ah, the Eighties, bad hair, bad clothes, killer music.

Siouxie and the Banshees are awesome.

I like their song 'Peek a Boo', and the video clip that came with it, with the venitian blinds....

Mike

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10 Nov 2006, 12:19 pm

Actually the song I would've picked is "Here I Go Again" by Whitesnake.

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10 Nov 2006, 2:18 pm

Not the B52s' "Rock Lobster?"

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